Tech entrepreneur focused on Blockchain. I've run various well funded ventures in Blockchain and crypto - a Blockchain based social network with over 10,000 users, a Recognized as one of the top 100 Blockchain influencers in Asia by Lattice80. Distinguished Alumni award from VIT University. Recognized as a blockchain expert and trainer by Dubai Municipality. Recipient of the Distinguished Speaker Award at the International Gold Convention; Panelist at the International Spices Conference. I've qualified for the Ironman world championships.

Alex Ryvkin founded Rho Protocol, the first institutional-grade market for crypto interest rates, in 2022. Before founding Rho, Alex was crypto custodian Copper's Chief Product Officer, and spent the decade prior in capital markets and fintech as a sales trader, derivatives structurer and startup CEO. He has an MBA from London Business School.

Ana is the CEO and co-founder of Fideum Group. Her journey started in the complex world of European Union law enforcement agencies, giving her an inside perspective on regulatory systems. She then pivoted to the private sector, where she spearheaded blockchain and AI projects as COO for a Canadian public company. A pivotal moment for her was being part of the core team of AAVE (ETHLend), now the largest decentralized lending marketplace, immersing her in blockchain’s potential. Now, with Fideum, she's merging her regulatory knowledge and passion for technology to redefine the fintech landscape and help financial institutions interact with digital assets.

Anthony Howe is Strategic Forums Project Lead at GFTN, currently spearheading the organisation's expansion into the Middle Corridor in partnership with the National Bank of Georgia and the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development. 

A seasoned venture builder and service design leader, Anthony brings over 20 years of expertise in scaling technology ventures across APAC. He co-founded 5th Finger, Australia's pioneering mobile marketing firm, engineering dual trade-sale exits to Microsoft and Merkle (Dentsu). 

Most recently, he guided 20+ tech ventures through bespoke APAC market launches and led platform partnership development that drove over $3.5 billion in Southeast Asia trade finance solutions. Beyond boardrooms, Anthony is a keen guest educator in Service Design (NUS, Strate School of Design), an international touring jazz musician and recording artist, and an aviator-in-training.

Cais Manai is a product leader and founder with a background spanning traditional finance, enterprise blockchain, and next-generation Web3 infrastructure. He is currently building TEN Protocol, an encrypted Ethereum Layer 2 designed for AI-native, privacy-critical, and high-stakes on-chain applications. His work focuses on programmable cryptography, trusted execution environments, and new token-issuance frameworks.

With experience in fintech, capital markets, and regulated distributed systems, Cais combines product strategy with deep technical curiosity. He works at the intersection of infrastructure, game theory, and user-centric design – helping teams translate first-principles insight into real-world, scalable adoption.

Chris, the co-founder and CEO of SignalPlus, has a rich background in macro trading from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. His expertise spans FX, FX Options, and interest rate products. Fueled by his entrepreneurial spirit, Chris has made significant strides in the fintech, SaaS, and web2 industries.

Daren is a co-founder at Reap, based in Hong Kong, where he leads the company's vision and strategy to build stablecoin-enabled financial infrastructure for efficient global money movement. Under Daren's leadership, Reap was among the first fintech companies in Asia to develop stablecoin-enabled financial services, a strategic decision that has driven the company's impressive growth and global expansion.

As one of Stripe's early employees, Daren witnessed the company's rapid growth helping businesses process online payments. After relocating from Stripe's San Francisco headquarters to Singapore, he played a key role in establishing their APAC operations. 

Recognizing the challenges businesses faced in managing financial connectivity and access, Daren identified a market opportunity to address these issues using stablecoin and blockchain technologies, leading him to found Reap with his childhood friend, Kevin Kang.

Davide is the chief commercial officer of Neon EVM. He is a crypto entrepreneur and has been deeply involved in blockchain and cryptocurrencies since late 2013.

Focus areas: DeFi, Web3, Staking (PoS), DAO Governance.
Networks: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, Polkadot, Kusama, Cosmos.
Activities: business development, product strategy, sales, partnerships, tokenomics.

Shaping the future of decentralized finance with Idle Finance, the oldest yield aggregation and optimization protocol - backed by Consensys, Gumi Cryptos, Dialectic, Long Hash, and GreenfieldOne. Combining the DeFi activities with the block production role to build a full-spectrum crypto experience.

Featured in the Forbes Italia 100 Under30 list, Nasdaq, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine.

Dr. Sangmin Seo is chairman of the Kaia DLT Foundation. Seo is a blockchain pioneer who developed the Klaytn blockchain that would merge with Finschia and become the Kaia chain, currently between the no.1 and no.4 L1 EVM chain in 2025 by DAU. Before the Klaytn and Finschia blockchains merger, Seo was the Representative Director of Klaytn Foundation, leading ecosystem expansion. He also worked as chief technology officer at GroundX, a blockchain subsidiary of the leading South Korean mobile messaging platform, Kakao. He holds a B.S. (computer science/engineering) and a Ph.D. (electrical engineering/computer science) from Seoul National University. 

Eric van Miltenburg is Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Ripple. Over his 8+ year tenure at the company, Eric has led high-performing teams across a range of disciplines including corporate strategy, global business operations, strategic partnerships, business development and marketing.    

Eric has 25+ years of business leadership. Prior to joining Ripple, Eric held senior positions with high-growth start-ups and Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Yahoo!, Hightail, RedSwoosh, Work.com and Excite@Home.com. He is known for his extensive experience in solving complex business problems and executing strategies that help technology companies systematically accelerate growth.  

Frederik Gregaard is CEO of the Cardano Foundation, the Swiss-based not-for-profit organization which exists to ensure the advancement of the Cardano protocol, while also contributing to the positive advancement of blockchain as a world-changing technology. A leader in fintech and blockchain, Gregaard previously served as Director and Head of Digital in PwC's Financial Services Advisory practice and as Director and Head of Institutional Business at Saxo Bank Switzerland. Whilst at the Cardano Foundation, Gregaard has overseen the advanced integration of state-of-the-art blockchain technology in a variety of fields that address real-world problems through collaborations with Switzerland for UNHCR, veritree, University of Zurich and Georgia’s National Wine Agency, among others.

Gracie Lin is the CEO of OKX SG, a leading cryptocurrency exchange holding a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). In her role, she advances OKX’s mission of bridging traditional finance with the digital asset economy while contributing to the development of Singapore’s digital token ecosystem.

Gracie brings two decades of experience spanning technology, financial regulation, and finance. She was the Managing Director of Strategy & Economics at Grab. Earlier in her career, she held senior roles at GIC and MAS, covering money market operations and banking supervision.

Hagen Rooke has extensive experience advising global financial institutions and corporates on regulatory matters across their full lifecycle, including financial services licensing, conduct of business, regulatory change projects, and contentious matters relating to regulatory investigations and enforcement.  His clients include digital asset exchanges, Web3 projects, payment services firms, capital markets intermediaries, banks, fund managers, exchanges, proprietary trading houses and commodity groups.  With an extensive track record of engaging with regulators such as MAS, SFC, and FCA, and with an international client base, Hagen has institutional and multijurisdictional experience to provide strategic advice to clients on critical business and risk-management decisions.   

Hassan is the Country Director of Coinbase Singapore. He previously held dual positions at GoTo Group as CEO of Coins.ph, the leading crypto brokerage in the Philippines; as well as SVP Strategy for Gopay, Indonesia's largest eWallet service. Hassan's professional experience extends to New York, where he oversaw the launch of eToro’s regulated crypto trading platform in the United States as Director of Finance & Operations. Additionally, he was Head of Business Operations at Venmo and Vice President of Strategy at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.

Jacob Phillips is the Co-Founder and head of strategy at Lombard. He is responsible for driving strategic vision and overseeing operational execution.  Prior to founding Lombard, Jacob served as the COO at a DeFi derivatives protocol, Perennial, where he was the first hire and played a crucial role in shaping the company's direction and growth.

Jason Allegrante is the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at Fireblocks, where he manages a broad portfolio of legal, regulatory, commercial and compliance matters. Prior to Fireblocks, he worked in the Financial Institution Supervision Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and practiced law at the international firms Linklaters LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Since 2018, Jason has served as senior legal counsel to early stage fintech and SaaS companies and advised on critical matters at the intersection of financial services and the emerging digital asset economy. He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Columbia University and a Certificate in Global Business Law and Governance from Sciences Po / Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne.

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Jeff Feng is the Co-Founder of Sei Labs, a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain built for trading and DeFi. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he’s a leading voice in data sovereignty and decentralized science (DeSci), recently spearheading Sei Foundation’s exploration of acquiring 23andMe to protect user genomic data onchain. Previously, Jeff was a Venture Investor at Coatue and worked in TMT Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley, and is also a Partner at Sierrawood, supporting early-stage innovation.

Jeremy Tan is a MtGox hack victim and a Bitcoin maxi. He's also Singapore's best-performing independent candidate at the country's general elections in 53 years.

Ecosystem lead, mETH protocol

Joey led design teams at Coinbase, Uber, and Meta. At Coinbase, he and his team simplified core experiences in the consumer app—including sending, staking, and trading—through initiatives like Coinbase One. After helping 10x these businesses, Joey left in 2025 with a seed investment from Coinbase Ventures to found Nook Savings. Together with two co-founders from Coinbase, the team is now focused on making DeFi earnings accessible to everyday people.

John Cho is Vice President of Partnerships at Kaia DLT Foundation, a non-profit organization established to accelerate the Kaia blockchain’s global adoption and ecosystem maturity. John played a significant role as VP of Marketing Communications before taking on his current title. He led a host of brand expansion campaigns for Kaia and Klaytn, Kaia’s prior chain name before the merger with LINE’s Finschia blockchain. His achievements include a successful brand transition from Klaytn and Finchia to Kaia, where he encouraged his team’s creative initiatives.

Before this, John was Head of Growth at Krust Universe, a blockchain venture capital fund that invests in projects built on Klaytn and operated alongside Klaytn Foundation to accelerate ecosystem growth on Klaytn. Prior to that, he headed LG’s global data marketing initiatives for almost a decade as the Data Platform Team Lead at HS Ad, LG’s in-house global advertising agency. 

Jonathan is a builder-turned-DeFi writer at Blockhead with 20 years in tech. Connect with Jonathan for real takes on crypto, culture, and everything in between.

Kapil is the Co-founder & CEO at Quranium. A seasoned leader with 12 years of global, diversified experience dealing with enterprises, startups, and funds.

He was the former Web 3.0 leader at PwC India and an award-winning CEO who crafted the Metaverse Startup of the Year 2023 from scratch.

Kapil has also helped over 20 startups in the Web3 ecosystem with their GTM and Product strategies. He is a distinguished global speaker, thought leader in the Web3 space, and author.

Karl joined Crypto.com in 2021, and is currently the exchange's EVP, Financial Services and GM International, based in Singapore.

Kathy Zhu has been involved with the crypto industry from both inside and out, from her days as a journalist to her current role as APAC lead at Mezo, an EVM blockchain-based platform that allows users to stake BTC assets to secure itself and serve as Bitcoin's economic layer. Joining Binance when it was a small startup of fewer than 200 people, she worked in global marketing and later transitioned to leading growth and operations for Binance’s P2P trading platform. After leaving Binance in 2021, she moved into venture investing, with a focus on Bitcoin and its evolving ecosystem, particularly through Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens.

Kean is the head of institutional relations at Lido, and Board Director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). Previously, Kean was a sales director at Nuant, a portfolio and risk management solution for digital asset funds, and was also a member of the sales team at ConsenSys, and has worked in Web3 for 9 years.

Lawrence is a 2x Founder with 2 exits, an executive, builder and investor in the cryptocurrency industry. His experience is supported by one year working closely with the Founder of BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, as his Chief of Staff before taking a Director role at BitMEX as a member of the Executive Committee. After this, he led a management buyout of BitMEX Academy and rebranded it to XD Academy which was acquired by Genius Group International in December of 2024.

As a Founder, he looks at business problems from a holistic and expansive view set, and engage challenges with an extreme bias to action. He works well with highly analytical minds and pair most effectively with high integrity, high transparency and competitive business leaders.

Lisa is the founder and managing director at Economics Design, a research focused consultancy for digital ecosystems.

In the research space, she contributes to research work in various fields like math, governance policy and economics, while having the practitioner exposure through designing token economic models for projects.

She was one of the first few to research and educate on token economics, starting in 2018 in London. Since then, she has a weekly podcast on the economics of token ecosystems, online courses, and has educated regulators, government officials, students and organisations in London, Singapore, Seoul, Geneva and Columbia University.

Marc Liew is a global business leader at the intersection of Web3 innovation, institutional finance, and emerging technologies, currently serving as Head of APAC at Jito Foundation where he leads the expansion of Jito's liquid staking and MEV ecosystem across Asia-Pacific, driving strategic collaborations that strengthen Solana's decentralized infrastructure. He previously spent nearly two years at Ripple as Head of Web3 Partnerships, where he spearheaded institutional Web3 ecosystem initiatives and played a key role in launching RLUSD, Ripple's enterprise-grade stablecoin, as well as expanding the XRP Ledger's stablecoin ecosystem across global markets. His career spans six years at R3 in progressively senior roles culminating as Head of Ecosystem, where he developed key partnerships for real-world asset tokenization and digital currency solutions, alongside leadership positions at fintech pioneers including Braintree, PayPal, and Fiserv.

Mark Robert Karpelès is a French businessman and the former CEO of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox.

Nic co-founded Oh in early 2022 with Felix. Together, they also co-founded a successful digital marketing and PR agency, which generated six-figure annual profits. Prior to the success of his own agency, he worked at a top PR agency consulting some of the world’s biggest brands including Huawei and Burger King. Nic leads the vision and general direction of the business.

Nikhil Joshi is the COO of EMURGO with a remit to increase its commercial adoption through build and investment. He oversees the build side of EMURGO’s Fintech, Media and Education products, as well as its incubation arm. 


Prior to EMURGO, Nikhil was the COO of a Singaporean startup focused on solving trade and supply chain woes using Hyperledger Fabric and Corda. He successfully fundraised $7m for a Series A round during Covid. Before that, Nikhil spent 15 years with Barclays in London and Singapore, improving capital efficiency for New York and London structured credit desks, as well as lobbying global regulators on Basel I-IV. Latterly, he was involved in strategic and tactical initiatives using revenue, cost, funding, capital and liquidity levers to improve Return on Equity for Barclays' Asian business. He also worked extensively with Senior Relationship Management and IBD parts of the business on client strategy and cross-selling.

Raagulan is the CEO and co-founder of Kast, a Singapore-based fintech platform focused on stablecoin-powered financial services, offering a way to spend, save, and receive money using stablecoins.

Rumi Mohd is a Associate Director at Randstad Singapore, leading a team of 10 specialist consultants focused on Sales & Marketing recruitment. With over 10 years of executive search experience, he partners with Fortune 500 companies, venture capital and private equity firms, SMEs, and high-growth startups across diverse sectors—including technology, professional services, consumer, banking & insurance, as well as crypto, fintech, and payments. His consumer coverage spans automotive, FMCG, retail, luxury, CPG, and hospitality.

Samar heads up the Talos business in APAC, delivering institutional-grade digital asset trading systems to customers on the buy-side and sell-side. Over his 20-year career, Sen has worked in a variety of product, strategy, and technology leadership roles at capital markets firms across the industry. Prior to joining Talos, he served as the Global Head of Digital Products for Securities Services at Deutsche Bank, where he co-led the bank’s digital asset strategy and product delivery. In addition, he has held senior Asia-based roles at BNP Paribas, Barclays, and TradeHero after starting his career at Goldman Sachs in New York. Sen holds a degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Samuel Chong is the founder of Stakesaurus, which helps people in SEA become ETH node operators. Stakesaurus’ mission is to grow the grassroots solo staking community in SEA to help strengthen the consensus layer of the Ethereum network and, at the same time, leverage on this skill set to improve the lives of the less privileged in this region. Samuel is also a CFA charterholder and spent 5 years as a SEA-focused venture capital investor at TNB Aura.

Sota Watanabe is CEO of Startale Group, the company that aims "Web3 For Billions" by building products like Astar, Soneium with Sony Group, and Startale Cloud. In addition to that, he is one of the directors of Japan Blockchain Assosiation. He previously selected Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Japan in 2022 and 100 People of Japan in 2023 by Newsweeks.

Valentin Fournier is a digital asset analyst at Blockhead Research Network (BRN).

Vikram is the Global Founder of Draper Startup House, a concept inspired by his two-year backpacking journey across more than 50 countries on six continents. His vision is to create a global network of economic and soulful landing pads for entrepreneurs, effectively forming a new type of global chamber of commerce in every major city worldwide. Vikram is also the Co-Founder of Draper Nation and the Founder of Draper Startup House Ventures, which focuses on investing in early-stage startups globally. He previously led venture capital investments at REAPRA, where he invested in early-stage ventures across Asia. His career began at J.P. Morgan, where he was an early member of several new ventures. Vikram grew up in Los Angeles and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Riverside, followed by an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Vinay Mohan is a management consultant and technology entrepreneur based in Vancouver, Canada. With over twenty years of experience, he has delivered numerous strategic transformation projects and established pioneering ventures in fintech, CBDCs, web3, enterprise blockchain, and the wider digital asset ecosystem.
Vinay’s areas of specialization include financial services, energy, and government sectors with deep learnings gained in both emerging markets as well as advanced economies. He takes a keen interest in bridging the usability gaps in web3 and making blockchain-based technologies available to web2 audiences.

Veteran technology entrepreneur/investor Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global leader in blockchain and gaming with the goal to provide property rights for virtual assets. Yat began his career at Atari Germany, then established Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1998 he set up Outblaze, an award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services. After selling one of its business units to IBM, he pivoted Outblaze to incubate digital entertainment projects. One of those projects is Animoca Brands. A classically trained musician, Yat is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.